Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mellisa97/Archive

Report date June 27 2009, 00:33 (UTC)

 * Suspected sockpuppets


 * - same type of single purpose account as others, same M.O., first edits are deleting speedy template, editing only same page.


 * Evidence submitted by Bmg916

All accounts are single purpose accounts for article Amos the transparent, which was tagged by me for speedy deletion initially here. After I tagged it, user who created it started working on it some more (which is fine) and I figured a hang on tag would be placed, which, again, I have no issue with. My issue is when appears and the first edit they make is to remove the speedy deletion template as you can see by their contributions here and the edit history of the article in question here. I issued a warning template not to do this on talk page here. After this was done, and the speedy deletion template restored, along comes with the same modus operandi as {{, first edit is to delete the speedy deletion template from the article in question as you can see by their contributions here, and the edit history of the article here. Each of these other accounts also made one additional edit to this article; in my opinion to make it seem as if more people knew about and would edit the article about this band. After warning about removing speedy deletion templates here, just two minutes later (check the timestamps),  without being warned about removing the templates placed the {{hangon}} template on the article in question here. It is my opinion that if these are not sock puppets, then they are at least meatpuppets, as well as single purpose accounts. Bmg 916 {{sup| Speak }} 00:33, 27 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments by accused parties    See Defending yourself against claims.


 * Comments by other users


 * Clerk, patrolling admin and checkuser comments
 * {{tl|in progress}} - Tiptoety  {{sup| talk }} 23:00, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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 * Conclusions
 * All three sockpuppets indef blocked and tagged. I have left the master unblocked and issued them a warning in the spirit of WP:BITE. Tiptoety  {{sup| talk }} 23:07, 28 June 2009 (UTC)